What people really want is less control and cat videos. Perhaps a screen with two knobs on the side...one for the volume and the other to change the picture?
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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We're all secretly longing for the macbook wheel that was leaked over 15 years ago:
Sorry but any article about what internet users are saying about any topic is not real news. It’s not even noteworthy.
Pretty sure it disappointed most people
Not Apple fans though. They can't wait to use their new Vista!
Aqua, an OS X theme from before you were born
It’s SO cool!
I thought it couldn’t get better when System 7 had color support. It was such a revolution. Then Aqua came along and everything changed. Liquid Glass looks pretty nice to me but I’m mostly just glad we’re getting dimension back. Material flat UI is a stain on the world.
I share the same feeling. The flat lifeless interfaces need to go.
I think there was some sort of color support prior to System 7.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II
System 6 includes QuickerGraf (originally QuickerDraw), system software used to accelerate the drawing of color images on the Macintosh II.
Hmm. Apparently System 4 had color support, which is earlier than I expected.
...it wasn't until two years later in 1987 that Apple introduced color with the release of the System 4 & the Macintosh II.
Here's a photo of a IIcx with a color display:
They’re going for X with L-aqua-d Glass, but look at 7, so brutalist chill
This was 4, my bad, both tho
It was a nice theme IMO
Get the fuck outta here with that! Any red blooded microphile knows XP was PEAK windows experience. The lower opacity of windows in Vista was a bright spot in an otherwise disgusting experience.
XP was “the Linux” of Windows releases… 🤘
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Yeah, I used to be a typical Apple fanboy circa 2010, always watching the WWDC like I’m going to church.
Keeping up with Apple over the past several years has been very hit or miss, and watching it yesterday just kind of pissed me off.
I just checked the Apple website and it doesn’t really look any different to me.
I can see there are changes, but I don’t even know if the average user will really notice it.
Almost certainly they won't. But yeah, you're ruining the joke.
Did the same thing the other day, there’s like some minor icon redesigns? Otherwise this mostly seems like people made up stuff.
I saw some things in the videos, but I guess I don’t really care about design too much. So maybe that’s why I don’t care. I’ll have to ask my wife what she thinks.
And most other consumers, I would wager.
I dunno, I prefer liquid glass to the flat shit we've been seeing for the past decade.
The platform saw more than 20,000 mainland netizens express their discontent over the new design.
Halt everything!! 20k people saying things on the internet!!
This article really needs some illustration of what the new UI looks like, and what the old one looks like for comparison
the new one looks like shit.
Apple: adds blur effects, rounded elements, and color themeing
Homo Sapians: "Wow, another groundbreaking idea from Apple!"
It's not just blur though, it actually refracts what's behind the element, which sounds more performance intensive than it needs to be, and sometimes it's heavily distracting, but let's not kid ourselves that this is just windows vista on a Mac, they're emulating more of the physicalities of glass than just a static shine
I do hate color themed icons. I understand why someone else might like it, but it makes it hard to find what I'm looking for and some of the icon designs are bland and uninspired.
I bet it's going to drain more power, since you have to render all the diffraction in real time...
The whole update being design focused is kinda disappointing. But the Liquid Glass UI does look kinda intriguing. I'm glad to get back a little of the old Skeuomorphism of old.
Though I don't have any Apple stuff at the moment
you spelled Liquid Ass wrong.
Yeah I actually liked the whole Vista/7 era Windows looks. Didn't like anything else about Vista but that wasn't Windows Aero's fault.
Liquid ass
You know
If this were an optional "skin" of sorts, it would have been completely fine with me. But this is a forced redesign, and a really bad one at that. There will likely be changes before the GM release comes out, but overall I just don't like the design direction, nor the performance implications
Those damn corners weren’t round enough yet, thanks Apple designers👍
I guess I'm from China then